Record Number: 8736
 
National Science Foundation
 Directorate for Education and Human Resources
  Division of Graduate Education
   Integrative Graduate Education and Research Training Program (IGERT)
 
Dr. Paul Jennings
4201 Wilson Boulevard, Room 907
Arlington, VA  22230
Phone: (703)306-1696
E-mail: pjenning@nsf.gov
Web Site: http://www.ehr.nsf.gov/EHR/DGE/dge.htm
E-Forms: https://www.fastlane.nsf.gov/
 
ACTIVITIES SUPPORTED:         Provision of Training Programs
LAST REVIEWED:                10/13/97
ACADEMIC BACKGROUND REQUIRED: Not Specified in Sponsor Literature
CITIZENSHIP REQUIRED:         Not Specified in Sponsor Literature
AGENCY TYPE:                  U.S. Federal Government
DEADLINES ANNOUNCED:          09/08/97
                              08/15/98
 
The Integrative Graduate Education and Research Training Programs (IGERT) 
takes the place of the former Graduate Research Traineeship (GRT) 
program. There will be no future competitions for the GRT program. Those 
currently participating in the GRT program will continue to do so until 
their traineeship expires. The challenges of educating scientists, 
mathematicians, and engineers for the 21st century mandate a new paradigm 
in graduate training. To meet the need for a cadre of broadly prepared 
Ph.D.s with multidisciplinary backgrounds and the technical, 
professional, and personal skills essential to addressing the varied 
career demands of the future, the National Science Foundation (NSF) 
announces an agency-wide, multidisciplinary, graduate training program. 
The goal of the Integrative Graduate Education and Research Training 
(IGERT) Program is to enable the development of innovative, research-
based, graduate education and training activities that will produce a 
diverse group of new scientists and engineers well-prepared for a broad 
spectrum of career opportunities. Supported projects must be based upon a 
multidisciplinary research theme and organized around a diverse group of 
investigators from U.S. Ph.D.-granting institutions with appropriate 
research and teaching interests and expertise. NSF organizations 
participating in the IGERT program include the Directorates of Biological 
Sciences (BIO), Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE), 
Education and Human Resources (EHR), Engineering (ENG), Geosciences 
(GEO), Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS), Social, Behavioral, and 
Economic Sciences (SBE), and the Office of Polar Programs (OPP). Projects 
in any of the areas of research appropriate for funding by NSF are 
eligible. SUPPORT PROVIDED: Awards will be made in amounts up to $500,000 
per year (including direct and indirect costs) for a duration not to 
exceed five years; up to an additional $200,000 will be available for 
appropriate state-of-the-art research instrumentation and special purpose 
research materials during the first year of the award. About 20 awards 
per year are anticipated during the first three years of the IGERT 
program. NSF does not anticipate making more than one IGERT award to a 
single institution as a result of the competition. APPLICANT INFORMATION: 
Academic institutions in the United States and its territories that grant 
the Ph.D. degree and have research and training programs in the sciences 
and engineering are invited to submit proposals. Proposals involving more 
than one institution are eligible, but a single institution must accept 
overall management responsibility. Collaborating institutions need not be 
academic. APPLICATION INFORMATION: Applicants compete for support from 
the IGERT program in a two-stage process. In the first stage, applicants 
submit a preliminary proposal (preproposal) that outlines the planned 
IGERT activity; in the second, invited applicants submit a formal 
proposal. Invitations to submit a formal proposal will be extended on the 
basis of merit review of the preproposals; only invited formal proposals 
will be accepted. To encourage the submission of innovative projects, 
there is no limit to the number of preproposals that may be submitted by 
an institution in response to this announcement. An institution may 
submit no more than two single institution and one multi-institution 
formal proposals per year. Dr. Jennings is the contact for EHR. Inquiries 
regarding the IGERT program in other NSF directorates should be directed 
to one of the following: BIO: Dr. Gerald Selzer, (703)306-1469, E-mail: 
gselzer@nsf.gov; CISE: Dr. William W. Agresti, (703)306-1911, 
wagresti@nsf.gov; ENG: Dr. Joy M. Pauschke, (703)306-1380, 
jpauschk@nsf.gov; GEO: Dr. Jewel C. Prendeville, (703)306-1521; E-mail: 
jprendev@nsf.gov; MPS: Dr. Henry N. Blount, III, (703)306-1946, E-mail: 
hblount@nsf.gov; OPP: Dr. Douglas Siegel-Causey, (703)306-1030, E-mail: 
dsiegel@nsf.gov; and SBE: Dr. John Perhonis, (703)306-1742, E-mail: 
jperhoni@nsf.gov. The above deadline is for the required preproposals; 
formal proposals, if requested by NSF, will be due 15 December 1997. 
NOTE: The August 1998 deadline is a tentative date for preliminary 
proposals. Contact sponsor for further information. (Brochure in revision)
 
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